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Robert Hooks Biography (1937-)

Born April 18, 1937, in Washington, DC; son of Edward and Bertha (maiden name, Ward) Hooks; children: Kevin (an actor and director). Addresses: Agent: House of Representatives Talent Agency, 400 South Beverly Dr., Suite 101,Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, director, producer

Birth Details

April 18, 1937

Washington, DC, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• (Stage debut; as Bobbie Dean Hooks) George Murchison, A Raisin in theSun, Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA, 1960
• (Broadway debut; as Bobbie Dean Hooks) Dewey Chipley, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, Booth Theatre, 1962
• (As Bobbie Dean Hooks) Dennis Thornton, Ballad for Bimshire, Mayfair Theatre, New York City, 1963
• (As Bobbie Dean Hooks) Deodatus Village, The Blacks, St. Marks Playhouse, New York City, 1963
• (As Bobbie Dean Hooks) Arturo Ui, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New YorkCity, 1963
• (As Bobbie Dean Hooks) Stage assistant, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1964
• Clay, The Dutchman, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1964
• Title role, Henry V, Delacorte Mobile Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City, 1965
• Junie, Happy Ending, St. Marks Playhouse, 1965
• John, Day of Absence, St. Marks Playhouse, 1965
• Razz, Where's Daddy?, Billy Rose Theatre, New York City,1966
• Clem, Hallelujah, Baby!, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1967
• Daoudu, Kongi's Harvest, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1968
• The Harangues, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1970
• Deodatus Village, The Blacks, DC Black Repertory Company, Eisenhower Theatre, Washington, DC, 1973
• Captain Richard Davenport, A Soldier's Play, Mark Taper Forum,Los Angeles, 1982
• Major Tours
• George Murchison, A Raisin in the Sun, U.S. cities, 1960-61
• The boy, A Taste of Honey, U.S. cities, 1961-62
• Stage Work
• Producer with Gerald S. Krone, Unless Otherwise Noted
• God Is a (Guess What?), Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1968, then Aldwych Theatre, London, 1969
• Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1968, then Aldwych Theatre, 1969
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Negro Ensemble Company, St. MarksPlayhouse, 1968
• Kongi's Harvest, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse,1968
• Daddy Goodness, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1968
• Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1969
• An Evening of One Acts, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1969
• Man Better Man, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1969
• The Reckoning, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1969
• The Harangues, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1970
• Ododo, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1970
• (And director) Brotherhood, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1970
• (And director) Day of Absence, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1970
• Perry's Mission, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse,1971
• Rosalee Pritchett, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1971
• The Dream on Monkey Mountain, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1971
• Ride a Dark Horse, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1971
• The Sty of the Blind Pig, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1971
• A Ballet behind the Bridge, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1972-73
• Frederick Douglass ... through His Own Words, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1972-73
• The River Niger, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1972-73, then Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1973
• Director, The Blacks, DC Black Repertory Company, Eisenhower Theatre, 1973
• The Great Macdaddy, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1974
• Black Sunlight, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1974
• Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide, Negro Ensemble Company, St. MarksPlayhouse, 1974
• Terraces, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1974
• Heaven and Hell's Agreement, Negro Ensemble Company, St. MarksPlayhouse, 1974
• In the Deepest Part of Sleep, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1974
• The First Breeze of Summer, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, then Broadway, both 1975
• Liberty Call, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• Orrin, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• Sugar-Mouth Sam Don't Dance No More, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• The Moonlight Arms, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• The Dark Tower, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• Waiting for Mongo, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• Welcome to Black River, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1975
• Eden, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1976
• Livin' Fat, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1976
• The Brownsville Raid, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse,1976
• The Great Macdaddy, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1977
• The Offering, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1977
• Black Body Blues, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1978
• The Twilight Dinner, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse,1978
• Nevis Mountain Dew, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1978
• The Daughters of the Mock, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1978
• Plays from South Africa, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1979
• A Season to Unravel, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse,1979
• Old Phantoms, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1979
• Home, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1979
• The Michigan, Negro Ensemble Company, St. Marks Playhouse, 1979
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• Profiles in Courage, NBC, 1965
• "Silent Partners," The F.B.I., ABC, 1969
• Mannix, CBS, 1969
• Then Came Bronson, ABC, 1969
• The Bold Ones, NBC, 1970
• The Man and the City, ABC, 1971
• The Rookies, ABC, 1973
• McMillan and Wife, NBC, 1973
• "Deadly Ambition," The F.B.I., ABC, 1974
• Marcus Welby, M.D., ABC, 1974
• The Streets of San Francisco, ABC, 1974
• Police Story, NBC, 1975
• Petrocelli, NBC, 1975
• "Boom!," Trapper John, M.D., c. 1979
• Jason Ramsey, Tootie's father, "Overachieving," The Facts of Life, 1980
• Dr. Luther Tucker, "Reunion: Parts 1 & 2," The White Shadow, 1980
• Prosecutor, "Circumstantial Evidence," WKRP in Cincinnati, c. 1983
• "Choices," Hotel, 1983
• Lieutenant Peter Ellis, "The Trial," T. J. Hooker, 1983
• George Caniff, "The Hero," V, 1985
• Detective Joe Fisher, "Trackdown," T. J. Hooker, 1985
• Everett Charles Jensen, "Christopher Bundy--Died on Sunday," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1986
• Phillip Dalton, "Risky Business," A Different World, NBC, 1989
• Reasonable Doubts, NBC, 1992
• Cliff Emory, Out All Night, NBC, 1992
• Judge Earl Gregory, "Bare Witness," L.A. Law, NBC, 1993
• Judge Earl Gregory, "Parent Trap," L.A. Law, NBC, 1993
• Dean Moran, "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost It," The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, NBC, 1993
• Mr. Winters, "My Daughter's Keeper," The Sinbad Show, Fox, 1993
• Mel Daniels, The Commish, ABC, 1994
• Mayor Mitchell, MANTIS, Fox, 1994
• Dr. Smiley, "Good Cop, Bad Cop," Family Matters, ABC, 1994
• Joe Temple, "The Couch," Seinfeld, NBC, 1994
• Kendall Ames, "The Scent of Murder," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1995
• Joe Temple, "The Diplomat's Club," Seinfeld, NBC, 1995
• Andrew Chivers, "Murder by Friendly Fire," Diagnosis Murder, CBS,1996
• Jeri's father Lawrence, "Mother and Law," The Parent 'Hood, The WB, 1997
• Benjamin, Clueless, UPN, 1998
• Willis Barry, The Hoop Life, Showtime, 1999
• Also appeared in Dynasty.
• Series
• Detective Jeff Ward, NYPD, ABC, 1967-69
• Captain Barney Hill, Feel the Heat, 1983
• Commander Jim Coleman, Supercarrier, ABC, 1988
• Movies
• Lieutenant Edward Wallace, Carter's Army (also known as Black Brigade), ABC, 1970
• Larry Storm, Vanished, NBC, 1971
• Inspector Lou Van Alsdale, The Cable Car Murder (also known as Crosscurrent), CBS, 1971
• Sergeant Connaught, Trapped (also known as Doberman Patrol), ABC, 1973
• Commissioner Frank Wharton, The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (alsoknown as Ohanian), ABC, 1976
• Major Stanley Norton, The Courage and the Passion, NBC, 1978
• Captain Pete Rolf, To Kill a Cop, NBC, 1978
• William Still, A Woman Called Moses, NBC, 1978
• Paul Hendrix, Hollow Image, ABC, 1979
• District Attorney Roerich, Madame X, NBC, 1981
• John Miller, The Oklahoma City Dolls, ABC, 1981
• Ezra "Chops" Jackson, The Sophisticated Gents, NBC, 1981
• Harry Burton, Sister, Sister, NBC, 1982
• District Attorney Alton Reese, The Execution, NBC, 1985
• Wesley, Appearances, NBC, 1990
• Reverend Brooks, Heat Wave, TNT, 1990
• Dr. Peck, Abandoned and Deceived, ABC, 1995
• Thomas, Glory & Honor, TNT, 1998
• Joe Sherman, Free of Eden, Showtime, 1999
• Grandpa Gene, Seventeen Again, Showtime, 2000
• Pilots
• Stacey Robbins, The Cliff Dwellers, ABC, 1966
• Larry Dean, Two for the Money, ABC, 1972
• Nate Simmons, Down Home (also known as Just an Old Sweet Song), CBS, 1978
• Commander Jim Coleman, Supercarrier (also known as Deadly Enemies), ABC, 1988
• Albert, Morning Glory, S.C., CBS, 1996
• Specials
• Words by Heart, 1984
• Nathan Jackson, D.C. Cop, 1986
• The 16th Annual Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1989
• Other Television Appearances
• Blue Haven, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1975
• John Mays, Backstairs at the White House (miniseries), NBC, 1979
• Chief Arthur Cooper, The Flash, 1990
• Film Appearances
• Keel Robinson, Sweet Love, Bitter (also known as Black Love, White Love and It Won't Rub Off, Baby!), 1967
• Reeve Scott, Hurry Sundown, Paramount, 1967
• Chicken, The Last of the Mobile-Hotshots (also known as Blood Kin and The Seven Descents of Myrtle), Warner Bros., 1970
• Mr. T, Trouble Man, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972
• Beau, Aaron Loves Angela, Columbia, 1975
• Eddie, Airport '77 (also known as Airport '80), Universal, 1977
• William Galliot, Fast-Walking, Lorimar, 1982
• Admiral Morrow, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Paramount, 1984
• Dwight Henderson, Passenger 57, 1992
• King David, Posse, 1993
• Lieutenant Clark, Fled, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1996